Atlantic Forest
The state's largest block.
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The Vale Nature Reserve, also known as the Linhares Nature Reserve, is a large stretch of Atlantic Forest in northern Espírito Santo covering more than twenty-one thousand hectares, recognised by UNESCO as World Natural Heritage in 1999. It is one of Brazil's fourteen centres of high biodiversity and endemism and among the best-protected conservation areas in South America. Together with the neighbouring Sooretama Biological Reserve it forms a forest complex of more than fifty thousand hectares, the largest block of forest in the state. It is run by the mining company Vale for research and conservation, with a nursery that grows millions of native Atlantic Forest seedlings a year for reforestation, living plant collections, a herbarium and collections of woods, seeds and insects. The reserve welcomes visitors free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 am to 4 pm, with nature trails, picnic areas and a wildlife observation tower with guided time slots, which is sometimes closed for maintenance.
The state's largest block.
Above the canopy.
Millions of seedlings.
North of Linhares, Espírito Santo
Yes, Tuesday to Sunday.